Cindy Tingle
Learn to Row Coach

Cindy began rowing at Mount Holyoke College under the tutelage of Holly Metcalf while Holly was training for the 1983-84 National and Olympic teams. At MHC Cindy rowed stroke or bow in novice and both varsity eights or fours, including two races in the Head of the Charles and Dad Vail regattas. During her doctorate work in organic chemistry at Brown University and teaching positions at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges, she was a competitive cyclist, racing in criteriums, road races, time trials and stage races. She regularly earned top spots in local races and placed against national team members at the Killington 5-day stage race. Her “taste for gold” eventually came with winning the Harvard Road Race, which not only required being in the best “climbing” shape possible, but also team tactics. She credits her amateur cycling success to the discipline learned while rowing, working with teammates, and seeing first-hand from her MHC coach what it took to compete and succeed at the national level.

Harvard became home to Cindy and her family after a career change to scientific software, supporting biotech researchers in the Cambridge area. She and her husband Jeff raised two sons who attended the Harvard Public Schools and participated in multiple sports, including BAB rowing for their youngest. Cindy developed her coaching experience as an assistant coach for her son’s little league and major league baseball teams. It was during her son’s switch to rowing at BAB that she participated in Advanced Sculling offered by Bare Hill Rowing. She acquired a single scull to continue practicing on Bare Hill Pond and the Charles River, and joined Community Rowing in Boston, where she continues to row singles, double and quads (when not sculling at Bare Hill Pond). She is excited to share her love of rowing and Bare Hill Pond to new rowers in the Learn to Row program.